They’re alive! More miracles in the ruins

[AlphaCentauri]

Against increasingly high odds, search teams and rescue workers around the capital of devastated Haiti have found more survivors under the rubble.

On Friday, the fourth day of recovery efforts after a magnitude-7.0 quake that toppled countless homes and buildings, British firefighters pulled a 2-year-old girl from a fallen building.

Seven people were freed from the Montana Hotel Thursday night and Friday, including four Americans who were up and walking soon after being hauled from the wreckage.

Even an Australian television crew got in on the rescue effort, digging out a healthy 16-month-old girl from beneath her destroyed hillside home about 68 hours after Tuesday’s earthquake.

The crew was about to film an interview when neighbors and reporters heard the toddler’s cries.

“We had to break some walls,” said David Celestino of the Dominican Republic, who was working with the TV crew. “We had a big hammer, we made a hole, and she came out to the light. She basically walked out to me.”

Also on Friday, rescuers found 19-year-old Josyanne Petidelle.

She had already been three days under the rubble, and when rescuers pulled her from under a collapsed concrete house, they told her weeping relatives to dump her broken body with the other corpses on the sidewalk.

‘She’s alive!’

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[GMA]

1. Miracles, indeed.

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[applegrove]

2. Thirty search and rescue teams from the world over are not enough.

There are people who will live past 72 hours and never get help. It is so upsetting.